Pennsylvania’s highest court rejected a request by Gov. Tom Wolf to immediately take up his challenge to legislation that would advance a proposed state constitutional amendment declaring there is no right to abortion in the state, along with four other unrelated proposed amendments to the Pennsylvania Constitution.
The abortion-related amendment could go before voters as early as May 2023.
Abortion laws have been in flux across the country since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 precedent Roe v. Wade almost three months ago, finding that there was no right to abortion in the U.S. Constitution and returning the regulation of abortion to the states. In the first statewide abortion vote since the decision, Kansas voters last month turned down a proposed amendment to their state constitution that would have removed abortion protections….